Founded in Cincinnati in 2020, The Lavender Sachet is a woman-owned, small-batch maker of hand-crafted perfumes, soaps and home fragrance products. Founder and owner Alison Peters, a former New York City luxury-hotel publicist, draws on perfume memories from cities around the world while overseeing each fragrance, package and design herself. Every product is made in Cincinnati, and the company also hosts guided perfume-making workshops.
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APOTHEKEBorn from Chrissy Fichte’s 2011 scent-making experiments in a Brooklyn kitchen, APOTHEKE creates handmade home and personal fragrances, including its signature candles and soaps. The Brooklyn-based brand opened its own factory in 2012 and continues to thoughtfully blend fragrances and handcraft candles and soaps there. Its fragrance-focused Studio also invites visitors to make custom candles and perfumes.BROOKLYN, NY
HomesickFounded in 2016, Homesick makes fragrance and lifestyle products designed to turn memories of places, people and moments into scents for the home. Its signature candles are developed with input from local communities—sometimes 30 to 100 people per candle—and poured in small batches using a natural soy wax blend. The range spans location-inspired fragrances, meaningful occasions and licensed pop-culture memories, including a FRIENDS™ Central Perk candle.
3rd & SycamoreBorn from a soap-making hobby in the first floor of Jim and Candyce’s home, 3rd & Sycamore now crafts handcrafted bath and body products and hand-poured candles in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 2018 under the former name Tiki Botanicals, the business has grown into multiple retail stores, an online shop, and a corporate gifting operation. Its owners and staff continue to develop the scents, formulations, labels, and sustainable packaging themselves.COLUMBUS, OH
Brooklyn Candle StudioFounded by Tamara Mayne in 2013 after candle-making began as a hobby, Brooklyn Candle Studio has grown into a Brooklyn-based maker shaped by its founder’s design background and love of nature. Its in-house artisans hand-pour and label home fragrance in a 20,000-square-foot Industry City workshop, creating minimalist candles with botanical scents for people seeking a calmer atmosphere at home.BROOKLYN, NY